The Sims 4 Discover University sees the long-awaited return of roommates! Now there are two variations of roommates. The first is those who are automatically assigned to live alongside your Sim in university housing. This could be on campus or on a specified university housing lot. Of course with the game automatically assigning roommates, you could be in for a few surprises!
The second way of gaining roommates is actually by placing an advertisement. This actually allows your Sim to get to know potential new roommates before asking them to move in. You also don’t have to be attending university to use this feature.
Placing an Advertisement
Placing an advertisement for a roommate is easy. Simply head over to a computer/laptop and under the Household menu, you will find the option to create an advertisement. Alternatively, you can use your Sims’ cell phone and again under the Household tab, you will find the option to place an advertisement.
Once you place the advertisement, you will receive a notification telling you that your advertisement has been placed for a new roommate.
If, once you have placed your advertisement you decide that you no longer want to look for a roommate, simply repeat the process again to cancel the advertisement.
After You Place The Advertisement
Once you have placed your advertisement you will need to make sure that you have space to accommodate a new roommate. Whether this is their own room or a bed and some simple furniture in an existing bedroom.
It can take a few Sim days for applications to arrive. You will be able to tell which Sims are coming to meet your Sim as they will have Potential Roommate above their name.
Once the applicants arrive, you can get to know them and interact with them just like you would with any normal Sim.
When you have decided on the Sim you want to become your new roommate, simply click on them and navigate to the Roommate menu. You can then use the Accept as new Roommate option. As soon as you select a Sim to be your Roommate your advert will be closed and taken down. The chosen Sim will also move straight in.
Living With Your New Roommate
Your new roommate is now a part of your everyday life. The fact you have handpicked this Sim will hopefully mean they will help out around the home with cooking and cleaning. Just watch out as you may end up with a disruptive Sim who will throw surprise parties and not help around the home.
Roommates will also help contribute towards the household funds via rent. The amount of rent varies depending on how many Sims you have as roommates.
You will find that Roommates won’t move out on their own and only if you kick them out if you need to. Once they have left you can place an advertisement again to help find a new roommate.
Additional Information
- Roommates are not restricted just to the world of Britechester. Regardless of where your Sim lives or if they live in a standard home, apartment or penthouse you can have roommates.
- The number of roommates depends on the number of beds. This is the same for both university housing and for normal gameplay.
- University roommates are automatically generated. They will also claim their beds too.
- You may notice that roommates will leave you little notes from time to time as well. You will be able to either compliment or complain to the roommate who left the note too!
What are you looking forward to the most when playing with roommates? Let us know in the comments below.
is there a way to make roomates decorate an apartment and not just their room?
My roommates keep moving out :/ then I have to ask them to remove in. Idk why they keep leaving….
Help!! I have a sim with her cat in a house with three bedrooms and have one roommates so now two out of the three rooms are full but it won’t allow me to get anymore to fill the other bedroom. What do I do?
So, I’ve made 3 uni students (for now), all living in dorms in britechester, but I really want to play with them separately! Like I want each one to be played as a different household, or 2 together and 1 by himself or something like that, and not all 3 together as roommates (even though the 3rd on lives in a single-bed room). Is that possible? Please help, thanks!
Can you move the household to a new lot and still have roommates?
My ” Place advertisement for roommate” button won’t light up. I made up a nice bedroom and still nothing. Plez help!
It might be counting your pets! I can’t get the option to light up unless I have more beds than I have sims + pets.
How or can you replace roommates with people that are in your gallery?
when i try to make the sims i want my roommate (I make sims specifically for each dorm I live in) it makes them apart of my household
When I move homes, can my roommate move with me?
I tried to post for a roommate and I have 1 single person bed and 1double bed…but it still says I don’t have enough beds for a roommate…I do not understand why…if I add a 3rd bed to my lot it lets me…but I only have one sim so there’s no reason for a third bed. help!!!…is it possibly counting my cat?
Mine counts my pets, very annoying.
Yes it counts animals and children. I will put a couple double beds out post the ad and then once when I get a roommate I delete the other beds. Hope this helps!
I’m curious of the rent works, and was it’s a lower payment from them when you have more… like do I still get the same amount as I would with just one roommate.
I posted the roommate advertisement, a week passed and no one showed up? Did i do something wrong?
can you be a roommate
I would just like to say that they will move out in their own. Mine did due to “bad conditions”
Hey I’ve just moved into a dorm and am having to control my roommates as well, is there a way I have to only control my Sim?
Roommates are not part of your household, they’re unplayable npcs. If there are sims in your household, you did something to make that happen. Did you right-click and add them to your household?
Does anybody know if I can play as a Sim living at another Sim’s house as their roommate?
I’m currently living with 5 roommates but I want to move houses. Will they come with me? Or do i have to look for new roommates at the new house?
Hi! I don’t know if this is supposed to happen, and I can’t seem to find any resolution or explanation to this, but all my dorm mates just move out and new ones replace them. Is this supposed to happen? I worked hard on them so that’s why I was a bit confused. Thank you in advance!
Can you add pets and kids as roommates?
Can I not have a roommate?
is it possible to set one of household member as a roommate (NPC) ?
My sim failed university. What exactly am I doing wrong??!!
He did his homework.
He did his term paper.
He studied.
Did I not study enough???
Roommates will leave on their own after a while. They say something like it’s time to move on
Can you send 2 household sims to uni at the same time and have them live in the dorms? Or do they have to go to residential housing?
Yes. It’s inconvenient how it works, because you can’t do it at the same time. The first sim will choose major, courses, which dorm, and how to pay … and then move out. When the game loads, you’ll be in the dorm with this first sim.
Go up to manage households, return home to the second sim and repeat. Careful, don’t be a doofus and accidentally select the wrong dorm (like I did two terms ago), because you won’t be able to fix it until the following term.
I’m playing four sims – two married couples. I’m doing a better job of managing their time than I ever did as a real life university student.
When the end of term comes, make sure you re-enroll immediately. That way, you won’t have to do the cumbersome one-at-a-time move in from home.
Is there a way to add a new sim to your dorm?
Can I have my roommate assigned to my double bed so my sim and my roommate can sleep on the same bed?
yup! this is possible as of the latest patch ( Jul 2020 ).
Hey so I have enough beds but it still won’t let me get a roommate….
Can I move out with my roommate?
yes – if you get to know them well enough you can ask them to join your household and then move with them 🙂
My Roommate Keeps Saying Im Not Meeting Their Needs…But My Whole House Has Everything To Meet His Needs..What Am I Doing Wrong?
They can move out on their own.
At least, one of mine did. I built a small house next to my main house. She complained the house wasn’t nice enough. I guess I was supposed to upgrade the furnishings (even though she had everything including a computer I bought her). Couldn’t do anything because I was broke at the time. She moved out a couple days later. It was fine. She was kept throwing parties, leaving piles of trash around and flirting with my Sim then getting mad when she didn’t reciprocate. Good riddance.
I’ve got a huge mansion and my sim lives alone (for now) so I decided to get some roommates and out of four, only one complains. He said, “I have needs and they are not being met in this place. I can barely take care of myself. Could you make sure there are enough things in this place that I can take care of myself? If not….. I’m going to have to start looking for another place.” I have FOUR bathrooms, three ovens, tons of things to do (swimming, basketball, instruments, karaoke, etc) and even a butler! Is he mad because he has to share a room with another male? I cheated and “made happy” so he “Feels better about this situation. I feel like I’m able to handle my life now. Thanks for providing!”
As I’m typing this, he left (another) note by his bed that says: “You know what I love? Getting up and walking out of my room and stepping into a puddle of who knows what left by who knows who that’s been sitting there for who knows how long. Oh gosh, I just love it so, so much.”
I didn’t see any puddle? Maybe he took and shower and left it there by himself? This is one picky Sim! Maybe I should kick him out?
Change his parameters using ‘testingcheats on’ then ‘cas.fulleditmode’ then ‘Modify in CAS’ Look for WHINY traits, then replace them. Make him a HAPPY boy… LOL
If my sim moves will her roommate go with her?
I love the content. Have to say that it’s the most interesting update.
(Besides the other things that other users have posted) the thing that I can’t figure out is that after the first two semesters for one of my played sims, all of the university housing is apparently empty. I’m in one of the four unit houses, and the three of the four dorms are completely. University seems unrealistically empty – it should be crowded.
i have a 1 teen household, i placed an ad but no potential roomies, guessing teens cant have roommates?
I’m having a problem keeping my roommates. I have all the amenities they could imagine and I still can’t seem to keep them more than a week.
I cooked a bunch of food and put it in the fridge and I got a comment from the roommate that they were happy now which may or may not have been coincidental.
Can I assign my roommates a bed in non-university houses?
how do i know witch dorm room is mine? and who my roomates are it never told me?
If you hover your mouse over the beds it will give you the name of the roommate it is assigned to. The one that doesn’t have a name pop up is your bed.
I have 11 single beds in my lot. I have 3 in household and 1 roommate and want to add one. How many more beds do I need? 20? I don’t understand 🙁 I am asking sims directly and the option doesn’t come up
what will happen if i already built a room decor in my roommate’s room? is that really have an effect to my roommate’s when they’re going to move in?
Can you change the roommate appearance (cas)?
Can I have like 20 room mates or will the game stop me?
Roomates = 10 – your sims and pets
10 sims per lot
I guess if you do testingcheats on then ‘cas.fulleditmode’ shift click the roommate and ‘edit in cas’
Yes, you just will have to use the testing cheats cheat then shift-right click on them to go into cas since they’re NPCs, not apart of your actual household. Or, if you have MC Command you can do it that way as well.
I used the styling block from get famous to update their appearance
how many roommates can you have? is it unlimited?
Roomates 10 – your_sims – your_pets
In total 10 sims per lot
yes, if you do ctrl shift c testingcheats on enter
cas.fulleditmode then you shift-click the sim and continue shifting when the cas button comes up
How do you add a friend to be your roommate without adding them to your household?
When you interact with friends click on them once, then click More Choices… and then click on the Roommates category, and there should be an option to “ask to be new roommate”
My ” Place advertisement for roommate” button won’t light up. I made up a nice bedroom and still nothing. Plez help!
if you have a pet u need to place an extra bed per pet, the game counts a pet as an adult (its weird) so for example if you have 1 sim and a cat, there must be 3 beds on the lot for you to be able to get a roommate, i assume once you have the roommate you can delete extra bed
I do not have the option to place an advertisement for a roommate, it doesn’t show up on the computer or the phone. How can I fix that?
make sure there are more beds than sims living there
My married couple sleeps in the same bed can that be throwing off their count
Yes. A pet will throw off the count, as well. For example if you have one Sim and one pet, in order to have a roommate you need to have an adult bed for you, and adult bed for your roommate, and an extra adult bed because it’s counting your pet as a household member. I believe it works the same way with toddlers and children because it counts adult beds per household member. I just hide random extra beds in the roof.
I only had the advertisement option available on while I was at my home lot
Same happened to me and I have no idea why.
How can I turn a household member into a roommate?
My guess would be to use testingcheats, shift click the sim and Remove from household, then go through the process of adding a friend as a roommate
Also wanna know this
For all those who still have trouble acquiring roommates
No matter how many beds you have in your lot
You need to change the lot feature/trait to ‘2 beds’ or more
In addition to having Discover University installed, of course.
i odo have an issue. some of my sims have neds they say, i have had a few says that they cant take care of themselves and end up leavin? how do i find what they want or what’s missing for them to feel at ease?
Hi there! I’m trying to post an ad to get roommates in the DU pack and it’s not allowing me. I have enough extra beds, i have NO pets. I did notice when I locked the front door and only allowed “roomates” none of us were able to leave the house, is my sim and the other roommates not considered official roommates? I’m not sure. I have also renovated my lot, it used to be the house that had 4/4 roomates but now i updated it so it has 8 beds now instead of 4.
How long does it take for potential sims come check out the house?
Every time I post an ad for a roommate it will last a couple of days and then I will have to do it again. What does this mean? In the space of time where the ad was still active. There have been no potential roommates.
It takes a few days but they should show up. If you hover the mouse over people appearing at your front door, it will say potential roommate. Then you can talk to them and decide if you want them to live with you. Also check to see if you have enough beds, unfortunately pets count towards your occupant count and pple have had to add an extra bed.
The Add for the roomate doesnt work for me on normal non university house. I post it and the potencial roommates never showed up. I managed to get a roomate by clicking on option “roommate” and “ask to be a roommate” (idk if its in english the same. My game is in my first language) and they always accepted. I always made them really nice room with empty space for their stuff, computer, bathroom and they leave after while because they cant take care of themselves. it doesnt make any sense. Sometimes they left a note by their bed.
A few corrections:
The roomate ad will not go away on i tr s own after selecting a roomate if you have more than one unassigned bed in the house – it goes away when you take it down or whenever all unassigned beds are potentially filled (i had made a row of 3×2 rooms with a bed and a door each and the ad only ended when each got filled)
Your roommate will move out on your own if they don’t have their needs met. My toilet broke and I didn’t notice because I was cheating and my roommate up and left saying he had needs.
3 semesters in a 10 person dorm and all the roomates are obese from eating all those randomly brought meals.. I’m so tired of all the stinky plates and piles of trash. I hired a maid so my sim wouldn’t be so stressed and constantly cleaning and I have to routinely modify the others down to a slimmer size..
Haha so funny. I noticed my sim was gaining weight too!
As someone who lived in dorms… sounds accurate to me.